OSX 10.5 Leopard on a G4

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I am thinking of upgrading to Leopard from OSX 10.3.9

I have a 1GHz G4 IMac, with 768MB of RAM and a 60Gb hard drive. This is above the minimum system requirements for Leopard, but not by much. I know some features wont work such as Boot Camp but i don't think it affects anything I would use.

Can anyone advise if it will run OK? Perhaps you have installed Leopard on a G4. I only want to go ahead if it works well, as it all pretty smoothly with the current OS.

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PJLarge said:

I've got it running on a 1.5 G4 Powerbook and my brother has it running on a 1.25 GHz (I think) iBook both with at least 1gb RAM. It runs fine in terms of performance but my Powerbook is behaving a little strangely, it sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night and starts running its fans and getting hotter and hotter and hotter which is a bit of a concern. My Intel Macbook Pro seems far better behaved, but all systems have some oddities like iPhoto not wanting to import photos any more and some strange application hangs / terminations. I'd probably hold off for a couple more months till .2 or .3 are released then go for it. I'm undecided whether to format / reinstall my G4 or take it back to 10.4 for now.

Thanks for the response. As I've got less RAM and MHz than both your examples I'll likely leave it for now

It's pretty much what I expected to here. I'll have to upgrade sooner or later as more and more stuff gets released that wont run on 10.3. It might be better to wait another year or so and buy a more modern Intel system.

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I'm in a bit of a dilemma now. I wish Apple did say a 30 day trial or something, which then reverted back to the old OS afterwards.

With regard to the eye candy, if I'm honest, that's probably one of the reason I fancied a change. I like the idea of the cover flow in the finder for example, and being able to use dashboard widgets.

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I've taken the plunge. All seems well so far. It was a bit slow for a while after the installation but it seems to have settled down ok. The only noticeable negativse so far is that it seems the hard disk is 'working' a lot harder, if that makes sense. The animation things like the dock, and windows minimizing doesn't seem quite so smooth either.

For info, I just did the upgrade as opposed to a clean install.

I've not really had chance to have a really good look round yet. Not sure if i like cover flow in the finder. I do prefer the newer versions of Mail and Safari. What are peoples favourite bits in Leopard?